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I was thinking of putting Secunia PSI on my Windows 8.1 laptop as I used it for years on XP. But I read an article that he considered it spyware. It does scan all your programs and recommends update, that is what it is for. Just wondered what anyone else thought about Secunia PSI
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Ken

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Ken,

It’s quite OK, but v.3 locks my computer up – many others have reported this. Try it out, but you may want to use the latest iteration of v.2 on some systems.

Zig

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Thanks Zig, I will be aware of v.3 I will get Secunia installed and see how it goes.

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I don’t use Secunia anymore, I found it didn’t always show the current update needed on a few programs. It’s great for looking at all your hardware, mfg info, etc. For keeping the programs installed on my computer updated, I use FileHippo. It’s free. You can download the Update Checker here: http://filehippo.com/

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Thanks James S. I will consider File Hippo, but I think I will go back to Secunia since I had good luck in the past. Of course we now how valid or not past experience can be with software updates.

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Ken,

I use PSI on all of my machines running Win 7 HP & Win 8.1 Update one and it works just fine for me. YMMV! HTH :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

PowerShell & VBA Rule!
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Thanks Retired Geek. I think I will give Secunia a try again since I have had good luck in the past.

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I do want to post another question, not sure if this is the exact right place. This is about Facebook and possibly a security issue or maybe it is something else. I was in Facebook 2 nights ago, and the Facebook screen went from full-size to 1/4 size so it was unreadable. I haven’t been able to get it back to full size since. I updated Java last night, thought that might be it, but made no difference. I am wondering whether v.30 of Firefox might be the issue.
Any ideas appreciated. Not like this is an earthshaking issue.

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I just wanted to add to the post I made about Facebook. I found that it is a Firefox problem. I finally tried IE and got in fine.

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One more post on the Facebook problem. I wasn’t aware that there was a setting with a menu in FF that adjusted the size of the window. The Facebook setting was 40% so when I set it at 100% everything was fine. I had another site that was somewhat smaller and it was 80%. So it is a good thing to know.

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